I needed to make a stand for cricket

12/11/2010

The Pakistani cricketer who fled to London after receiving death threats related to match fixing has said that he went public in order to clean up cricket.

Zulqarnain Haider, who on Monday quit from his team’s base in Dubai where they were training for matches against South Africa, says that he was asked to fix the fourth and fifth games between the two countries, and was threatened by an unknown man as he was leaving the team hotel to go out for dinner. The man said that ‘If you can't help us you will not continue your cricket. When you go to Pakistan we will kill you and your family also.’ Now Haider wants to put an end to corruption in the sport.